Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-09-22
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The assessed valuation Of Council Bluffs
5 81. sos. 7s9.
4 Frank Reed accused Of horse Stealing.
.Iav been found guilty BY the Hardin
,ounty district court ms
Thcinstitutiop for the deaf and dumb
opened its fall term at Council Bluffs ON
he l4th, N ##
The Iowa synod Of Presbytcrians win
meet at Keokuk the last week Of this
month.
A boy 10 years old was taken to the
,olcc station at Davenport for stealing
pigeons.
A special from Ocheyedan, Osceola
county. Sept, II, says: Two escaped
convicts were caught southeast of town
last night One of them is supposed to
be murderer, the other mail robber.
Intense excitement prevails in town over
the affair."
The large cattle sheds and warehouse
of the Iowa City distillery were burned
by an inccndiary Sept. II. Loss $4,000.
insurance $500
The Atlantic base ball season ended
with Crcston first and Atlantic second.
The Atlantic packing house will start
Oct. LIST employing 200 men.
Boring for gas, water or coal has begun
at Atlantic to go 5000 feet Ithica, N.
Y, parties have the contract.
The number of prisoners in confinement
at the two Iowa penitentiaries on the first
day of September was 622. This is just
thirty-four less than were in confinement
year ago. G'E
The Atlantic Canning Co., has Just
closed season, putting up one million
cans of corn. Some farmers who grew
sweet corn for the factory made $50 per
acre off their crop.
Tom Garvin, farmer, came to Musca-
tine with load of corn and got drunk.
When starting home. late at night he
was unable to manage the team, which
ran away and fell over bridge in the
city. carrying beneath them Jewish ped
dler, Jacob Rubenstein, who was pass
ing along on his way home from train.
The Jew died the next morning, but
Garvin, strange to say, is only slightly
hurt.
Walker Adams President of the Daven
port Savings bank and a prominent bust.
ness man for twenty years, died suddenly
on the afternoon Of Sept II, Of heart
disease. He had just returned from 9
European trip, which he enjoyed greatly.
His age was sixty-fve years.
A Creston special says: Burglars enter
ed the residence of w. w. Morrow, a
prominent citizen, and stole purse con-
tanning forty dollars and gold watch and
chain valued al one hundred and twenty
five dollars. The city is infested with a
gang of local thieves who are becoming
expert cracksmen.
A Winterset special, Sept. IA says: The
greatest excitement for many years has
existed in and around Wmterset for about
forty eight hours, concerning lost child.
The facts are as follows: A man by the
name of Harvey Getchell lives among the
breaks Of Middle River, about five miles
southwest of the city. His house is nearly
surrounded in every direction with timber
and brush. Last Monday afternoon Mr.
Getchell was away from the house al
work, and about 2 o'clock Mrs. Getchel
went about half mile to a neighbours
leaving little boy two years old asleep
fastening the screen door behind her
She returned in a half hour to find thu
door open and the child gone. The neigh
borhood was Immediately aroused ant
from fifty to one hundred people search
ed during the remainder of the day ant
all night. Early in the morning the new
was brought to Winterset and hundreds
from the city and surrounding country
Joined in the search, which was kept ~
all day and night without the least success
To day the search was continued. but W
to noon no trace ofthe lostchild had beer
discovered. Everybody from the whole
section of country where Mr.. Gatchel
lives was engaged in the search, and tn
ladies were bringing in provisions by the
wagon load to feed those who were search
Ing the country Including the people
from Winterset, fully fivehundred peopl
have been on the ground. taking part ii
the search. 1t was believed for Will,
by many that the child was kidnappedHo
eaten by the wolves. many of which infes
this neighborhood. Tho lost child wa
found this afternoon in the river abou
| two miles from home. Ii had cvidentl,
been dead for some time. & ~ t}k2}tea
Mai. White, the great reyivalst, will
be at Dubuque next month, and will re-
main three weeks. During the first week
he will be the exhorter at the Secont
Presby terian church, the secondrweek a
the Methodist, and the third week at tn,
Congregational. Mai. White is not
reverend, and when he turned his attcn
Ition from worldly affairs to religion, he
left a salary of $4,000 per annum as
superintendent of the Elgin Watch com
pany.
A, dispatch from Iowa City says thu
State University opened its fall term OF
the 18th. The attendance in the college
department is exactly two hundred, OF
whom eighty are new students, ant
seventy-four of these freshmen. Thi
number of new students exceeds las
years opening. The law department ha
enrolled fifty-one and the pharmaceutica
eighteen, fully up to last years opening
President Schaeffer is max ing asplendit
Impression on new and old students am
tine prospects Of the new institution for
successful school year were ne vers go ID
The Sisters Of Charity are making pre-
hratons to establish Catholic hospita
at Council Bluffs.
Prof. Cambell was elected professor o
English literature in Coe college at Cedal